Sentences with phrase «with black humour»

His works, which are permeated with a black humour, a sense of irony and the absurd, transform exhibition spaces into giant containers of images, sounds and objects where numerous screens interact with each other.

Saulnier's screenplay is tight and peppered with black humour as the strong cast do sterling work.

And lastly, yet perhaps most importantly, its a satirical and cautionary tale of marriage, filled with black humour and cynicism.

Instead, with its black humour, mystery and graphic violence, You're Next is an amusing and entertaining experience.

An ultra-stylised road movie filled with black humour, violence and pop - culture references to Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, it is was both booed and applauded when it won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Gillespie has imbued his film with black humour, while never undermining the authenticity of the characters or detracting from the abuse that runs through the story.

You know you're going to get something suitably off - the - wall when you play something by Zoink Games - this is the studio that brought us Zombie Vikings and Stick It To The Man after all - so we're looking forward to be freaked out yet again with the black humoured Flipping Death.

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The majority of such books are written with the gritty black humour of how soldiers think and talk.

I am a sociable 35 years old black lady with a great sense of humour.

5»10 med / lge build asian black hair good sense of humour loves pubs clubs and movies enjoy's good food with company

Apparentlly I have a good sense of humour with a keen sense of the ridiculous - think of the comedy series «Black Books» with a touch of «Ideal» and a pinch of «Frazier» and you may have...

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch - black humour with life - saving surgery.

I am medium sized black beauty, and a cheerful lady with a good sense of humour.

Kung Fu Panda is pretty good, with good action, well designed characters and Jack Black humour.

With a great ensemble cast - including «The Football Factory» and «The Business» star Danny Dyer and former «Blackadder» regular Tim McInnerny - director Smith piles on the black humour and bodies, but doesn't let either swamp the story.

The Bronze then changes from an oddball black comedy full of crass humour and filthy language into a sort - of redemption story (with crass humour and filthy language), although neither choice ever really works.

Sono writes and directs with a sharp sense of black humour that contrasts Izumi's sexual awakening with the a policewoman (Mizuno) investigating a hideous double murder in a «love hotel».

More crucially, he fills even this rather dopey movie with underlying intelligence and a bracing vein of ironic black humour.

Both films employ a conspiratorial, first person voice - over together with a potent mix of surreal realism and exceedingly black humour to invest the experiences of their anti-heroes with genuine pathos.

The opening lines of Stephen Sondheim «Äôs macabre musical may be missing, but our introduction to the gruesome, grimy streets of London still retains a distinctive visual flair; saturated in soot and scum, Tim Burton's take on the Demon Barber of Fleet Street borders on graphic novel, oozing with oil - black humour.

Just as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

There's also a rich seam of black humour running through the movie, with most of the one liners coming from Imogen Poots.

ust as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

Gilliam and his co-screenwriters (an uncredited Charles Alverson (Jabberwocky), Charles McKeown and most famously, Tom Stoppard worked on it on and off over six years) stuff the film with subversive bon mots, furiously paced slapstick and sight gags, and the blackest of humour — it is at once thrilling and hilarious.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Despite its exploitationist leanings (girls with big boobs, lots of gratuitous blood) Death Race 2000 is actually a black - humoured satire.

With a very funny script and a terrific sense of black humour, this quirky family comedy keeps us laughing even as it gets strongly emotional.

The film feels like a purring blend of Hitchcock and Lynch, with constant touches of black humour, dark tension and bizarre surrealism.

Other minor problems are Stans death - row inmate character when the film attempts some black humour with his diatribes.

Written and directed with the verve, painstaking nuance and outrageously black humour that have become the mainstay of a Coen movie.

Beginning with a trumpet riff that evokes John Williams» legendary Superman theme, only to segue into the horrible crash landing of an Armenian schizophrenic, the film's pre-credits sequence perfectly captures a tone of arch black humour that treads a fine line between the old and the new, the expected and the unpredictable.

There's no overstatement or winking with the scene's black humour.

Consider, too, that despite all those contortions invested in balancing the character, the actor (Jordan Prentice, habitually mistaken for Peter Dinklage by ignorant Sundance pundits) is left at the end with the burden of a grisly rimshot / punchline so undignified that its black humour becomes the one thing that any humour should never be: completely unfunny.

The film's jazz soundtrack, gorgeous black - and - white cinematography and deadpan humour create a romantic melancholic atmosphere that is highly enjoyable to indulge in, with Niko as a charismatic flâneur.

But where Moonrise was awash with wistful nostalgia in its take on adolescence, romance and scouting, Anderson's latest mines its period setting in service of a broadly comical tale which enjoys frequent diversions into both black and off - colour humour even as a body count amasses and the Second World War threatens to intrude on the borders of the titular hotel's fictitious homeland....

Structurally, it could be compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon for its subjective cross-examination of Nola's loves; but this delightful low - budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.

Beautifully shot in black and white, and favouring minutely designed long takes — as a conscious homage to some of the directors Ross Perry admires, such as Philippe Garrel — The Color Wheel playfully hovers between abstraction, realism with a faux - improvised feel, and New York Jewish humour — a staple in Altman's comedic routine.

The editing is precise, the storyline dark, complex and sly, and injected throughout with the Dutch director's trademark pitch black humour.

The results are intense and disquieting, rippled with moments of tar - black humour: this is bracingly bold filmmaking, easily one of the year's most compelling movies.

However, with an open mind many will appreciate the sharp writing, excellent performances and the finely tuned balance of black humour.

His conversations with both real and imagined people are full of wit and humour, some of it quite black.

Black humoured action - RPG series Fable was the studio's most popular export (with three main entries, a Kinect - only title, a pub games - style app and a multiplayer platformer released under the Fable banner), as well as the quirky god simulator franchise Black & White.

West of Loathing is a point and click adventure with a distinctive black and white, stick figure aesthetic and a wicked sense of humour.

Diverse as ever, McLean's select exhibition contains two mixed media works; presented on the ground floor of the gallery, the Untitled paintings are comprised of dense, black organic shapes that veer to the abstraction on neutral backgrounds, adorned with daubs of coloured paper that on some sides have been hastily cut and others impatiently ripped, a nod to the rebellious humour of McLean who's body of oeuvre comprises witty sculptures made of rubbish and even his own body.

Through Nagle's sophisticated humour, the 50s pink - and - black decor of naugahyde and speckled linoleum co-exists with the 50s splattered drip paintings of the Abstract Expressionists; the thick, creamy glazes of Japanese ceramics seem to come in thirty - one flavours, and the structures of moderne architecture can be held in the palm of your hand.

Running from 16 March until 6 May, the show portrays the incredibly persuasive power of language and British humour in art, with these four groundbreaking artists highlighted as prime examples of how they're using text and black humour to make a statement.

Black Humour Earns Shrigley Prize Place The Herald; April 26, 2013; Miller, Phil; 606 words THE darkly humorous art of David Shrigley, a Glasgow artist known for his... has also named Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye... who interact with the audience.David Shrigley: The 44 - year - old is based...

Her personal iconography often featured organic imagery such as birds, eggs, leaves, fruit and tendril - like automatist lines depicted with a sense of «surrealist black humour and violence», often within a dreamlike landscape.

Presented with both seriousness and humour (often black) and in an extraordinary diversity of material and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, these works serve as memorable metaphors of many aspects of our times.

Limestone floor tiles juxtapose with black stained wood doors in this striking hallway design, where letters add a touch of humour.